RE: Atheists
May 20, 2014 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2014 at 3:55 pm by BlackMason.)
(May 19, 2014 at 10:33 pm)MrWizard Wrote: Can you prove something came from nothing?
I don't think anyone can prove whether something came from nothing. The reason is simple: You need a "nothing" to observe to see if in fact something can come from it or not. What is nothing? Is it possible to have nothing? The conceptual idea of nothing that we have probably doesn't exist. If nothing is simply a void, then are there air particles in it? What about dust?
You see as human beings we tend to explain things by referencing them to that which we know and understand. Even new ideas and notions. So our concept of "nothing" is based on that which is. And since you'd be fucking around if you define something as that which isn't, we actually have a paradox. "Nothing" is a paradox. When you think of nothing do you see blackness? Well that blackness is made of something. Do you see complete light/whiteout? That shit be made of something too. I think I've made my point.
Lastly, I will concede that inductive reasoning would lead us to believe that something does not come from nothing. But what's your point?
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."